Chapter 103: This Spring, the Bride Is Not Me
When Jiang Niang woke up, it was already dawn, and she felt the sunlight pass through the bamboo window, cast on the bed, and onto her and Cui Hu. She really wanted to open her eyes, she really couldn't hold on anymore, hoping that Cui Hu could let go of her, let her activate her joints, let her see the warm sunshine, and smell the fragrance of ink in the creeping heart.
One of the things that Jiang Niang likes to do when she goes to Nanzhuang is to go to the pen washing pool.
She yearns for the rainy buildings in the south of the Yangtze River, and envies the women in the south of the Yangtze River who are graceful and light-footed. Looking forward to the day when she wore an elegant dress and a beautiful oil-paper umbrella, stepped on the green slate, and walked in the rainy alleys in the south of the Yangtze River. In the soft spring light, a student who reads poetry and books walks by the small bridge, you look at it affectionately, I smile with low eyebrows, you are haunted by dreams, and I forget to return.
Cui Hu, who is holding her tightly at the moment, isn't it the Jiangnan genius in her dreams?
Jiang Niang's heart suddenly rained a dripping spring rain.
Cui Hu was probably tired of hugging, and exchanged hands, Jiang Niang thought that Cui Hu was going to let go of her, but instead snuggled tighter, Cui Hu didn't notice.
Jiang Niang was shocked by her behavior: "Don't you want him to let you go?" Don't you want to move your joints? Why is it that he only changes hands, but you can't wait to get close to him?"
Jiang Niang asked herself. As everyone knows, Cui Hu is even more reluctant to leave her by half an inch, he is infatuated with her beauty and freshness; Infatuated with her delicacy, tactfulness. Cui Hu still thinks that the person in his arms is a peach.
In the independent courtyard of Jiangrui, the clear face is full of gloomy clouds. Yesterday, Cui Hu rushed into the inner room and picked up Jiang Niang, which completely disrupted his deployment.
Men and women do not kiss, and etiquette is also. If you kiss, you have to get married, and you believe it. Cui Hu's move is determined that he will not marry Jiang Tao, but the person Cui Hu hugs is Jiang Niang, no matter whether he can say that Cui Hu can take the exam with peace of mind, Cui Hu marries Jiang Niang, and Jiang Niang marries Cui Hu It has become an ironclad fact.
The five constants of "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith" are the norms of human beings.
The peach blossom plan made Jiangrui's heart move at the beginning, but now it makes him sad. He was afraid that the next day Jiang Tao would learn the truth, and it would break his beloved daughter's heart.
"Is it worth it for me to do this? Burying his daughter's happiness for his own purposes?" Jiangrui fell into deep self-blame.
※At the same time, in the mountains and mountains, a fast horse galloped on the official road, and the knight was none other than a flower peach in Dali Temple.
Jiang Tao shouldered the heavy life of Dali Temple and went to Jiangnan to handle the case. The case was complicated and intertwined, and it took Jiang Tao two months to sort out the intricacies and assist the local government to close the case.
After finishing her official duties, Jiang Tao returned to her heart like an arrow, she remembered that last year today, she and Cui Hu were reluctant to give up, exhausting their nostalgic eyes.
"I'll come back to see you next year." Cui Hu's words hovered in her heart for a whole year. Within a year, this sentence had been silently recited in her heart no less than a thousand times, and each time it made her heart as sweet as honey.
Spring is bright, and Cui Hu may have visited Nanzhuang.
Jiang Tao had a dream last night:
Cui Hu stood outside Nanzhuang for a long time, knocked on the door for a while, and saw that no one answered, so he sat on the stone steps, guarding the chai door and waiting for her to open the door.
The chai door opened quietly, she came out of the courtyard, saw that Cui Hu was asleep, and secretly had fun, so she locked the door from the outside, and then hid under the peach tree to watch Cui Hu's reaction.
After a while, Cui Hu woke up from sleep, looked up and saw that the chai door was locked, and his face was full of surprise. He kept twisting and twisting the copper lock, and the copper lock actually opened.
As soon as the door opened, a group of women gathered in the courtyard, surrounded by a bride. Seeing Cui Hu, they cheered in unison: "The groom is here, the groom is here." ”
Among the women is a cousin Jiang Niang, Jiang Niang handed the bride's hand to Cui Hu's palm, and said happily: "Cui Gongzi, this is your bride Jiang Tao, take it." ”
The women danced around the bride and the groom, Cui Hu, and sang the wedding song "Taoyao......
"O verdant peach tree, the flowers bloom red. This girl has been married, and the family will be harmonious and happy. On the official road, Jiang Tao thought about the meaning of the lyrics of "Tao Yao", her heart was sweet, she pinched the horse's belly, and rushed forward like a fast horse arrow.
※Three days later, the suburbs of Chang'an ushered in a dusty returnee: Jiang Tao.
The horse was tired, so Jiang Tao dismounted and led the horse past the river.
The riverbed was full of water, the green water was rippling, and the peach washed her face, which was refreshing and pleasing to the eye, and the tiredness of her body lingered.
The path of Nanzhuang is full of fallen flowers, and Jiang Tao picked up a peach blossom, the petals faded, like fat, like jade, like snow, as if telling her: "I am just a passerby, not a returner." ”
Jiang Tao's heart suddenly ached, and she was stunned: "Why do I feel like this?"
Nanzhuang is imminent, red lanterns are hung around the house, and the big red happy words are posted on the wood door, and Nanzhuang is busy doing marriage.
"Who marries whom? Who's going to marry?" Jiang Tao is at a loss, she is the only daughter of the family, and if she wants to marry, she will marry her.
"Could it be? Could it be that Mr. Cui Hu has come to the door to propose marriage, and the family is waiting for me to come back to complete the marriage?" The peach suddenly brightened.
Jiang Tao didn't care to look closely at the Cui Hu inscription poem on the chai door, and couldn't wait to push open the door, and then she saw an unbelievable picture, a picture that was exactly the same as the one she had appeared in her dream:
A group of elated bridesmaids are walking out of the house surrounded by a bride in a wedding dress, the bride wearing a red hijab, plump and graceful. The bridesmaids sang "Tao Yao" in unison, and the only difference from the dream was that there was no girl among the bridesmaids.
Behind the women, there was an old man who was secretly wiping away tears.
The peach seemed to have been struck by lightning, and she was dizzy all of a sudden.
The bridesmaids were full of spring breeze, and although the bride was covered with a red hijab, she could still feel her hesitation, and she moved her steps slowly, turning back three times at a time.
When the bridesmaids saw the peach, everyone's face changed, and they looked at the bride and then at the peach. The bride's size and posture are no different from those of a peach. Is it just because of these two surprises, or is it something else?
"It's like! Are they twin sisters? The bridesmaids crossed their heads and smiled.
Jiang Tao concluded that the bride was her cousin Jiang Niang, and the bride and Jiang Tao passed by.
"Why is my cousin in such a hurry to get married? Why can't you wait for me to congratulate you? Why do you treat Nanzhuang as your mother's home? Who is the bridegroom? A series of question marks came at Jiang Tao like a sea, and she couldn't parry.
The bridesmaids and brides walked to the courtyard gate one after another, and the moment the bride stepped out of the threshold, the bride retracted her steps and looked back suddenly.
Through the red hijab, Peach still believes that the bride is watching her intently. The bride raised her jade arm, picked up the red hijab, and halfway through it, her wrist drooped weakly.
At this moment, even if the two sisters had a thousand words, they all turned into a breeze and disappeared.
"The peach is dying, scorching its bloom. The son is home, and it is appropriate for him to live in his room. Outside the courtyard, the bridesmaids sang "Tao Yao" over and over again, and it was not too early, and they urged the bride to hurry up and go to the groom's house.
The bride hardened her heart, put away her stomach full of apologies and pity, and joined the team to welcome her relatives without hesitation.
※ Jiang Niang can't face her cousin Jiang Tao after all.
Cui Hu hugged Jiang Niang for three days and three nights without eating or drinking, Jiang Niang's heart hurt Cui Hu, and at the same time she was moved by Cui Hu's true feelings, she felt that she couldn't hide it anymore, so she opened her eyes leisurely.
Cui Hu burst into tears when he saw her wake up. Tears poured down her forehead, her eyebrows and shoulders.
Jiang Niang was also in tears, and she couldn't tell whether it was his tears or her tears.